''The Pat Kenny Show'' is a televised

talk show A talk show (or chat show in British English) is a television programming or radio programming genre structured around the act of spontaneous conversation.Bernard M. Timberg, Robert J. Erler'' (2010Television Talk: A History of the TV Talk Sh ...

broadcast on Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) in the mid-1980s.

Overview

Created to fill the vacant Saturday night slot after the departure of Gay Byrne's '' The Late Late Show'' from Saturday to Friday nights, ''The Pat Kenny Show'' was

Pat Kenny Patrick Kenny (born 29 January 1948) is an Irish broadcaster, who currently hosts the daily radio show ''The Pat Kenny Show'' on Newstalk and the current affairs show ''Pat Kenny Tonight'' on Virgin Media One. Prior to this, Kenny had a 41-yea ...

's first attempt at presenting a talk show. Kenny had previously been more concerned with presenting current affairs output. ''The Pat Kenny Show'' was a failure, being replaced by '' Saturday Live'', which was presented by a different presenter every week. Kenny was given another chance when he was asked to present one edition of ''Saturday Live''. This time he proved to be a success and went on to become the regular presenter of a new show, ''

Kenny Live ''Kenny Live'' is a televised talk show presented by Pat Kenny on Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ).''Kenny Live''
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''. Online on RTE Player in 2022 for 60 Years of television.

References

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